Word: aides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks after Princeton announces major increases in its financial aid program, Yale does the same. In the next month, Stanford and MIT follow suit. President Neil L. Rudenstine promises Harvard will keep its aid within "shouting distance" of other colleges...
Though predictable, the relative silence of the body this semester is disheartening. Long-term issues of immense significance to students--Ad Board reform, Core reform, Faculty diversity and especially financial aid, to name the most pressing--have not been publicly addressed by this term's council...
Once again, just as it has prevented rain from falling on Commencement Day for the last 346 years, Harvard has defied gravity. When Princeton, Yale, Stanford, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania announced their decisions to offer more generous financial aid packages earlier this year, any Harvard-trained economist might have expected that a price war would drive down the costs of a Harvard education...
...such economists would be forgetting Harvard's little pact with God. Instead of pledging to increase financial aid this year, Harvard pledged close to nothing (our offers would remain within "shouting distance" of those of other schools, promised President Neil L. Rudenstine). And now the results are in. Not only did the College's higher prices fail to deter students from enrolling; the percentage of admitted students choosing to matriculate actually increased...
However, there are also many ways that Harvard can help prevent RSI and aid those who already have it to recover...